America.

New York.

City of Armonk.

The moonlight at three o'clock in the morning was accompanied by snowflakes falling quietly.

"Dingling bell..."

Rich area.

A residence somewhere.

bedroom.

The phone rang suddenly.

On the bed, Samuel Palmisano was sleeping, tossing and turning in the bed.

The ringing kept ringing, and he finally became impatient and groped for the phone on the bedside like a blind man.

"What's up?"

A voice came from the other side, mumbling a few words.

After hearing this, Samuel Palmisano suddenly became energetic and his sleepiness disappeared.

He suddenly sat up from the bed and said in surprise: "Now?"

The person opposite said: "Yes."

"In that case, book a flight for me at four o'clock immediately, and I'll go to Chicago immediately."

After Samuel Palmisano answered the phone, he immediately left the warm bed with strong willpower. A gust of cold wind blew in from the window, making him shiver involuntarily.

His wife was awakened by the sound of him getting up and complained dissatisfiedly: "What time is it? What are you doing?"

She turned her head and looked out the window and said, "It's still dark. Is there anything you can't wait for tomorrow?"

Samuel Palmisano coaxed his wife with an apologetic look: "The company has an emergency and I have to go to Chicago. You know, I have just been promoted to the head of the Global Services Department not long ago, and I must make some achievements."

, otherwise you won’t be able to control the employees below. It’s three o’clock in the morning, if you’re sleepy, just go back to sleep, my dear.”

After saying this, Samuel Palmisano quickly sat up from the bed and walked to the bathroom. Although his mind was still groggy, his consciousness had already begun to become clear.

IBM's International Computer Services Division, with 135,000 employees, is IBM's fastest-growing department. If it weren't for the previous head who retired due to health problems, Samuel Palmisano would never have had the chance to take charge.

Such a core department related to the future of the company.

His wife got up to help pack her luggage, and Samuel Palmisano called the driver assigned to him by the company. Taking advantage of the fact that the driver had not arrived yet, Samuel Palmisano hurriedly went to wash up.

In the bathroom, looking at himself getting older in the mirror, Samuel Palmisano looked solemn.

He has always been a person full of fighting spirit and execution ability, just like those traditional white elites.

He is cold and shrewd. Whether it is his brutal physique or his cunning wisdom, he is exceptionally outstanding.

While attending Johns Hopkins University, he was the star player on the school's American football team.

After graduation, he brought the wild and ruthless style he cultivated in the team to IBM.

He started from the lowest level of sales, and then went through IBM's domestic branch, IT services, PC division and mainframe division. While serving as the executive assistant of Gerstner's predecessor John Ackles,

He was called "the best assistant" by the latter.

It took him 27 years to reach his current position.

But even so, Samuel Palmisano was not satisfied. After all, Roosevelt became the President of the United States at the age of 42, and he was almost 50 years old and had not yet become the CEO of IBM.

He feels that there is still huge room for improvement in his life.

It is this ambition that urges him to advance in his career.

Soon, the driver drove the car to his door.

Samuel Palmisano kissed his wife goodbye at the entrance, then turned and walked into the sky full of snowflakes.

On the way to the airport, deputy Gooden Myers called and said, "There's something wrong with Valinux's plan."

The two have worked together for many years. Samuel Palmisano has always trusted Gooden Miles, but va Linux's plan is too important to allow for failure. He frowned and asked excitedly: "What's going on?

What happened? What happened?"

There was a reason why he was so excited.

If he wants to climb up in IBM, especially for someone with no background like him, the only way is to make real achievements.

Not only to make money, but also to fight against IBM's enemies.

Therefore, as a company purely engaged in the Linux business, va Linux entered Samuel Palmisano's vision more than a year ago.

This small company has huge potential and value, because it may break Microsoft's monopoly on PC operating software.

Therefore, va linux is regarded as a hidden trump card in Samuel Palmisano's hand, which is related to his future destiny, so it must not be lost.

Now that he heard that there was something wrong with the plan, he was naturally very nervous.

Gooden Miles had no choice but to explain in a low voice: "Va Linux's stock was secretly acquired in large quantities by someone. The other party was generous and directly bought about 30% of the original shares. I only recently learned from Torvalds.

After learning about this, not only him, but also many internal staff of VA Linux sold their shares in advance."

"What? These idiots!"

Samuel Palmisano was so excited that he almost jumped up. His head hit the roof of the car with a loud bang, which made his face distorted and he couldn't help but groan.

On the other end of the phone, Gooden Myers asked: "I know they are idiots, but now that the deal has been completed, it is useless to fire them. The important thing is, what should we do now?"

Samuel Palmisano took a deep breath to calm himself down and prevent him from getting high blood pressure. He thought for a while and asked: "Do you know who bought these shares?"

Regarding this issue, there is no need for Samuel Palmisano to remind him. Gooden Miles has already investigated it clearly. He said: "He is a rich man from the East. I heard that his surname is Lu, and he was the same as Bill.

The Xia man whom Gates made so popular. His company produced MP3s that defeated the Imperial Alliance, and even reached a cooperation with the Recording Industry Association of America."

After hearing this, Samuel Palmisano immediately cursed: "Damn Torvalds! What kind of bullshit liberal pope, is all shit in his head?"

After scolding several times in a row, Samuel Palmisano vented his anger. What he was most worried about now was that Bill Gates would get wind of it in advance, so that the plan would be full of variables.

After finally regaining his composure, Samuel Palmisano sighed and said, "It seems I have to have a serious talk with this mysterious rich man from the East."

At the same time, Linus Benedikt Torvalds, the founder of va Linux, the "pope of liberalism" who subverted the world, and the software genius Linus Benedikt Torvalds, was sitting in front of the computer screen, talking to his close netizen Lu Yiming on the other side of the ocean.

Stay up late chatting.

Torvalds' face was flushed with excitement and his breathing was rapid. He said to Lu Yiming on the other end: "Lu, your idea is really surprising."

Lu Yiming said: "For the Internet, free is the future, so the social software I made will be free for life. Next, I plan to make a free anti-virus software to allow those who only try their best to monopolize the market.

To hell with software companies."

Torvalds laughed when he heard this: "You have the same idea as me! Lu, let's challenge the decadent old order together. They have been in that position for too long."

Although he is already thirty years old, Torvalds is obviously still in the middle school as he was more than ten years ago. His mind is full of open source and free, and he wants to break the monopoly and blockade of the virtual world by commercial companies such as Microsoft.

The social software mm developed by Lu Yiming was very popular with him, and he was even willing to sell part of his original VA Linux shares to Lu Yiming.

Of course, the price given by Lu Yiming was not low, at least at the time of purchase.

Both of them are programmers and have similar values, so they naturally had a great time chatting.

However, Lu Yiming quickly sent a message: "Sorry, I have to take a call first and we'll talk later."

After finishing the chat with Linus Benedict Torvalds, Lu Yiming picked up his mobile phone and found a long series of numbers on it.

Obviously, this is not a serious phone number.

However, if you call me at this point, it's either a scam or something urgent.

Lu Yiming prefers the latter.

He pressed the answer button.

"hello?"

The caller was Samuel Palmisano, who introduced himself as the head of IBM Global Services.

As soon as Lu Yiming heard Samuel Palmisano announce his home address, he immediately guessed the purpose of his call.

It's nothing more than asking about buying shares of Valinux.

Lu Yiming, however, pretended to be dumbfounded and followed Samuel Palmisano's words and said: "I am not a customer of IBM. What services can you provide me?"

Samuel Palmisano did not point it out directly, but said coldly: "It depends on Mr. Lu, whether you want to be IBM's friend or IBM's enemy."

Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Sir, can I think you are threatening me?"

Facing the behemoth IBM, Lu Yiming did not panic at all. He said calmly: "I am neither anyone's friend nor anyone's enemy. I only make friends with interests."

These words were so capitalist that even a veteran like Samuel Palmisano, who has been working in the world of free capital for decades, couldn't help but tremble.

There is no doubt that Samuel Palmisano is a very smart man, and he instantly understood the underlying meaning of Lu Yiming's words.

His expression softened slightly and he said, "So, you won't ruin my original plan because of your friendship with Mr. Bill Gates?"

Lu Yiming asked back: "Are you talking about the free and open source version of Valinux?"
To be continued...